SMALL GRAZING RUNS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2326, 20 October 1908, Page 6

SMALL GRAZING RUNS.

A NAPIER VIEW. Mr Eustace Lane (says the “Hawkes’ Bay Herald”) may congratulate himself ’ that he has secured justice in the case of the East Coast grazing runs, and that he has vindicated the course he hook to bring the matter to public notice. We do not suppose that he enjoys a quarrel with his fel-low-members of the Land Board for its own sake. But probably no other course would so effectually have called attention to the point in dispute as that which he took. Perhaps in his anxiety to get justice done, he went farther than he would otherwise have done. That, however, is a small matter in view of the result. Mr Lane succeeded in getting the Government to reconsider its decision. He fixed the public attention on the fact that. the Government was attempting t 0 dictate to the boards, and lie roused a strong suspicion that in some cases there was a difference observable in the treatment meted out to various applicants which was hardlv consonant with fair play. We learn’ that tho Crown Lands Board has revised its finding and made recommendations which seem more equitable. It is strange that a board should have to make such a rightabout turn. ißut it is quite clear that it would not have done so but’ for MiLane’s strenuous exertions in a cause, which, he believed, to have right on its side.